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Potential for additional discoveries within the Sidewinder permit area.

Sidewinder is a new field discovery situated in the main Taranaki production fairway and is just lightly explored. To date, TAG has been drilling the lowest risk shallow Mt. Messenger (~2000m) prospects in an initial effort to minimize financial risk, build near term reserves and leverage new infrastructure before drilling the high-impact prospects in the Kapuni Formation (~4000m). This prolific formation is where most of
New Zealand's large fields have been discovered and will become a focus for TAG.

"Given the positive results of these recent wells, we continue to be optimistic for further discoveries within the Sidewinder permit area." TAG CEO,
Garth Johnson commented. "We have had excellent success with our shallow Taranaki drilling program thus far and will continue to exploit and develop this important play but our forward drilling strategy will include wells into higher impact opportunities. TAG's operating cash flow is estimated to grow substantially in
April 2013 and combined with approximately
$70 million in working capital and no debt, we are in a position to now fund financially riskier opportunities."

TAG Appoints Senior Oil and Gas Executive to New Zealand to Lead Development & Build Natural Gas Business

TAG Oil Ltd. is also pleased to announce that Canadian oil and gas executive, Mr.
Randy Toone, P. Eng. will be joining TAG as it's New Zealand Country Manager, and will be based in New Plymouth,
New Zealand. Randy brings significant operations and energy related expertise and will help TAG leverage it's strong position, and execute it's business plan which includes building the Company's natural gas businesses.

TAG is pleased to have attracted a high calibre executive such as Randy to help build TAG in
New Zealand. He has a deep understanding of the industry and has proven himself as a leader. Over the past ten years, Randy was a senior executive with AltaGas Ltd. (TSX: ALA), a leading Canadian energy infrastructure company based in
Calgary Alberta. He was originally hired as Operations Manager in 2003 and progressed through to senior executive positions of President, Gas Division and finally as President, Utilities. Prior to AltaGas, Randy has held leadership positions with Williams Energy Canada, Petro-Canada Oil and Gas and with Husky Oil Operations.

TAG has granted a total of 150,000 incentive stock options to Mr. Toone. These options are exercisable until
February 26, 2018, at a price of
$5.00 per share, subject to certain vesting provisions.

TAG Oil Ltd.

TAG Oil Ltd. (
http://www.tagoil.com/) is a Canadian-based production and exploration company with operations focused exclusively in
New Zealand. With 100% ownership over all its core assets, including extensive oil and gas production infrastructure, TAG is enjoying substantial oil and gas production and reserve growth through development of several light oil and gas discoveries. TAG is also actively drilling high-impact exploration prospects identified across more than 2,984,171 net acres of land in
New Zealand.

In the East Coast Basin, TAG will explore and potentially develop the major unconventional resource potential believed to exist in the tight oil source-rock formations that are widespread over the Company's acreage. These oil-rich and naturally fractured formations have many similarities to
North America's Bakken source-rock formation in the successful Williston Basin.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainty affecting the business of TAG. Such statements can be generally, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "forecasts", "schedules", "prepares", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur.

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